An unknown breed in Europe. Koolies are not FCI recognized and come from Australia where they work cattle, sheep and whatever else Aussies want to have worked under pretty hard conditions regarding temperature, long hours and rough country. In rural Australia it is still common that dogs which are hard to train, sick or no good workers get put down. This is hard but purposeful: The breed was kept healthy with a high stress control and extraordinary good working ability.

Koolies don´t have an optical standard. Their height can vary between approx. 40 to 60 cm and they weight between 12 and 25 Kg. We have the ground colous black and red which can either be shown solid or combined with white, tand and/or merle.

Koolies are not know for being territorial or guarding. They are very loyal have a huge will to please. Thanking to their enourmous learning ability, they are very versatile and nowadays excel in all sorts of dogsports and rescuedogwork such as Mantrailing etc. Like with most herding dogs from strong working lines the most important thing is training frustration tolerance and being able to sleep anywhere right from the beginning. This way you get a dog which is ready to rumble within a second and can be relaxed when nothing asked.